Abstract
This paper considers the relationship between consumer education and bioethics (or bioethics education). There are two main reasons why consumer education has a connection with bioethics. The first important thing is that ; both consumer education and bioethics will have to deal with the problem of cost of medical treatments. The second reason is that because consumer education has an ideal to reconstruct of the environment and lifestyles, consumer education has to construct a reasonable medical situation. If we extend consumer education into a medical field such as decisionmakings of patients regarding to cost and ethics, we can find a great possibility of both consumer education and bioethics. The connection between the two is of great importance because although the great existence of global environmental problems is getting more and more serious the spontaneous limitation of consumption is never actualized yet. If we can find a real meaningful connection of the two in the pedagogical aspect, we will be able to have a strong orientation of consumer education with bioethics and find a new way of education. The orientation will be based on consumption ethics. This is the first thesis in which the relationship between the two is discussed, therefore the success of this paper depends on whether the readers can understand the rich possibility of consumer education.
